The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, July 1924 - April, 1925 Page: 119
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Descriptions of Texas by Stephen F. Austin
Municipality of Goliad, including the towns of San
Patricio and Guadalupe Victoria ................... 2,300
Municipality of Gonzales ............................ 1,600
Municipality of Austin, including the towns of Bastrop,
]Iatagorda and Harrisburg, and settlements upon the
Colorado and San Jacinto Rivers, and the new town
of Tenoxtitlan .....................................12,600
Municipality of Liberty, including the settlements of
Anahuac, Galveston and Bevil ...................... 4,500
Municipality of Brazoria, including the town of Velasco. 4,800
Municipality of Nacogdoches, including the settlements of
the Ayish, Trinity, Neches, Attoyac, Tenaha, Sabine and
Pecan Point ............... ......................16,700
Total number of population ....................46,500
The wandering tribes of Indians and half civilized persons,
whose number passes twenty thousand, are not included in this
enumeration.
Products. Those of Texas are: Cotton, sugar, tobacco, in-
digo, edible grains and vegetables of various kinds; flocks, lum-
ber and boards, leather goods and hides.
Mills. In the municipalities of Austin and Brazoria there
are thirty cotton-gins, two steam sawmills and grist mills, six
water-power mills, and many run by oxen and horses.
In Gonzales there is a water-power mill on the Guadalupe river
for sawing lumber and running machinery (mover maquinas),
which is of much importance, since this mill supplies the towns
of Gonzales and Goliad and the city of Bexar with boards
(tablas).
The municipalities of Liberty and Nacogdoches are very well
provided with mills and gins, and there is great progress in
this industry in all parts of Texas.
General Observations. The planting of cotton is very general
and well advanced in all parts, and the yield this year will be
more than one hundred and fifty thousand arrobas ginned and
clean, equal to six hundred thousand arrobas with the seed.8
AAn arroba is equal to twenty-five pounds.119
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, July 1924 - April, 1925, periodical, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101087/m1/123/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.